RED BELT - Israel 

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The present work is characterized by the desire to acknowledge and sense both the living and dead moments that constitute human experience. This inquiry revolves around a primal mode of experience relating to skin as the external layer which contains the body. Our primal experience is managed by the senses, particularly the sense of touch. Not only the site of initial contact with the environment, the skin also delineates the boundary separating the self from its surroundings, distinguishing between me and not-me. The skin envelops the self in the most fundamental sense, as anxieties related to the autistic-contiguous position, a primitive mode of experience, take on the concrete or metaphoric form of loss and containment. This work will attempt to delve into the primordial, pre-linguistic strata of our psychic constitution, determining our sense of existence or lack of boundaries, continuity or threat of dissipation, vitality or stagnation.

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